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This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment
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The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and...
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research areas: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics and determinants of poverty, multidimensional measures of poverty, and …Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Child poverty and household poverty in Cameroon: A multidimensional approach … -- Chapter 3: The impact of child malnutrition and health on cognitive skill in Ethiopia: using standard panel data analysis …
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The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...
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contributions” -- Chapter 2. Tsegaye Mulugeta, “Impacts of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption on Rural Poverty: Evidence from … Rural Farmers: An Analysis based on Survey Data of Ethiopia” -- Chapter 8. Getu Tigre, “Multidimensional Poverty and its … and alleviating poverty in the country. The studies cover transition from rural agriculture to urban industry and the …
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tackle the underlying causes of food poverty. The research is timely, and considers a range of disciplines and practices …1. The Growing Problems of Food Poverty and Insecurity -- 2. Growth of Food Banks in the UK (and Europe): Leftover Food … for Leftover People -- 3. The Cultural and economic Dimensions of Food Poverty -- 4. Food Banks and their Contribution …
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of the government’s child development services, child malnutrition, deaths in families, gender discrimination, and the … Child Development Services (ICDS) Program -- 4. Child Malnutrition -- 5.The Health of Elderly Persons -- 6. Deaths in the …
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The Big Picture: Global Trends Affecting Agricultural Finance -- Institutional and Process Innovations in Serving Rural Clients -- Dealing With Risks in Agricultural Finance -- Using Modern Technology for High-Quality Services in Rural Areas
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-- 6. Estimating Trade, Welfare, and Poverty Effects of Trade Policy Reforms -- 7. The Interface between Trade and …
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This edited volume brings together contributions from experts on a range of food security issues, and examines them through a number of case studies. A Millennium Development goal and important policy concern, food security is experiencing renewed interest due to globalisation, which has led to...
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